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  • Future of Millstone busing has parents, drivers upset

    By: Cara Latham    MILLSTONE — In a crowded Board of Education meeting Monday night, more than 30 parents and bus drivers expressed their concerns over the possibility that busing won’t be available for private school students, and over a reduction of hours bus drivers would be working.    This past year, the district transported 158 students…

  • Holiday Deadlines

    Due to the Fourth of July holiday, the production cycle of the July 5 Messenger-Press will be moved up one day. All correspondence and materials from readers, therefore, must be submitted no later than noon Friday, July 29, for inclusion in the July 5 edition. Materials received after noon will be considered for the July…

  • Princeton Nurseries to close in 2010

    Pending closure has some wondering what will become of large swath of land. By: Rebecca Weltmann    UPPER FREEHOLD — According to Ivan Olinski, if you cut his veins he’ll bleed Princeton Nurseries.    For the past 12 years, he has been company president. Last week, the 62-year-old Upper Freehold resident announced that after 94 years, the…

  • Police dept. gets back in the saddle; motorcycles added to township roads

    By: Paul Koepp    Township police say speeding tickets have tripled in the month since they brought back a fixture of the distant past, a motorcycle unit.    Starting in the 1930s, the New Jersey State Police used motorcycles to patrol Route 13, now known as Route 27. The highway was then the most-traveled road in the…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    From the June 28 edition Bill lists now posted To the editor: After many months of requests and inquiries to the Township Council, the lists monthly of bills paid by Washington Township are now openly posted for public review and scrutiny on the second floor of the Municipal Building, 1 Washington Boulevard.    This public disclosure…

  • Summer Sizzles

    with dazzling new artwork from emerging artists at Trenton’s Gallery 125. By: Susan Van Dongen    No offense, but has anyone ever told pen-and- ink artist Brian Casally that he’s a teensy bit obsessive compulsive? He creates petite black and white worlds on paper, cities with meandering checkered streets, elaborate structures and all kinds of decorative…

  • Solebury deer kill to resume

    Some residents are circulating a petition to stop the hunt that includes fawns. By: Linda Seida    SOLEBURY — Sharpshooters will return in several weeks to pick up where they recently left off, culling the deer herd with high-tech rifles and night-vision equipment.    The township’s $250,000 contract to bring in sharpshooters from the U. S. Department…

  • ‘Sicko’

    For all Michael Moore’s humor, this film is heart rending, touching and thought-provoking in a way none of his others have been. By: Bob Brown Michael Moore consults with a British doctor in Sicko.    Michael Moore has graduated. Big Mike, the class clown, has finally made a film that might actually be a documentary.    After…